Transients plead guilty in killings of Canadian tourist, yoga teacher

SAN FRANCISCO –Two transients pleaded guilty Monday to murder in the deaths of a Canadian tourist who was camping in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park during a music festival and a yoga teacher walking his dog on a popular hiking trail.

As part of plea deals, Morrison Lampley, 24, agreed to a 100-year prison sentence and Lila Scott Alligood, 19, accepted a 50-year term after each pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, prosecutors said. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

Lampley will receive the harsher sentence because he pulled the trigger in both of the 2015 killings that occurred just two days apart, the Marin County district attorney’s office said.

Both defendants had faced a possible sentence of life in prison without parole. But under the plea deal, they can apply for parole after serving roughly 85 per cent of their sentences. Both agreed not to appeal their convictions.

“This plea agreement puts finality in the tragic losses that were endured,” District Attorney Edward Berberian said. “A spectre of what could be an endless appeals process is abated and the families will be relieved from having to revisit these events.”

A third defendant, Sean Angold, 25, previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges and is expected to be sentenced to 15 years in prison after agreeing to testify against the other two suspects.